Amherst Peanut Line - Lets #FinishTheTrail!

Three bike riders on grass and tree-line path.

GoBike Buffalo Announces Peanut Line Trail Feasibility Study

by Dom LicataNews, Trail Advocacy June 10, 2024June 10, 2024No Comments

GoBike Buffalo has launched a Feasibility Study for the Peanut Line trail, named as a priority corridor in “Bike Buffalo Niagara, the Regional Bike Master Plan (2020).” The Study will “identify technical requirements of building a trail, address community concerns, especially related to environmental and privacy considerations, summarize community input around trail amenities and design, …

Group of bicyclists in front of the barn.

Peanut Roll XIX — Trail of Dreams

by Dom LicataPeanut Roll Group Rides, Trail Advocacy June 4, 2024No Comments

Please join us on June 9, 2024 for our 19th group bike ride along the Amherst section of the Peanut Line. Now in our seventh year of advocacy, our group of Amherst residents and neighbors from adjacent towns have been raising awareness of the importance of completing the conversion of the former Canandaigua-Niagara Falls Railway …

Peanut Roll XIV Fall Color Ride, October 16, 2022

by Dom LicataNews, Peanut Roll Group Rides, Video October 17, 2022June 4, 2024No Comments

Many thanks to the nearly 50 riders who showed up for Peanut Roll XIV, including about a dozen first-timers, and to The Rock Kitchen and Bar for hosting our afterparty. We couldn’t have asked for a more perfect fall day to celebrate our advocacy to #finishthetrail. Since 2018 we have organized these group rides to …

Seamus Gallivan, Co-founder of Slow Roll Buffalo, Supports Peanut Roll XIII and The Rock Kitchen & Bar

by Dom LicataPeanut Roll Group Rides, Trail Advocacy July 26, 2022August 3, 2022No Comments

GOBike: Facing NIMBY opposition, Peanut Roll XIII riders press forward for July 31 ride

by Dom LicataPeanut Roll Group Rides, Trail Advocacy July 26, 2022July 26, 2022No Comments

From GObike Buffalo: We’ve been aware of the effort to continue and complete the Peanut Line Trail through Amherst, and have promoted their rides in the past. Clarence pulled off their conversion of an old rail line, but Amherst did not, and lost their state grant to do so. Noel Dill, a leading advocate in …

The Rock Kitchen & Bar Stands Up for the Peanut Line Trail

by Dom LicataPeanut Roll Group Rides, Trail Advocacy July 25, 2022July 25, 2022No Comments

Last Friday The Rock Kitchen and Bar received an anonymous voicemail warning of a boycott of this deeply rooted locally-owned business if participants of the Peanut Roll XIII group bike ride were allowed to gather there on July 31. (A small group of Amherst residents have for 20 years opposed improvement of the final section …

Peanut Roll XIII Community Action Ride, July 31, 2022

by Dom LicataPeanut Roll Group Rides, Trail Advocacy, Uncategorized July 17, 2022June 4, 2024One Comment

Peanut Rolls are fun, slow-rolling group trail rides designed to show public support for the completion of the Amherst Peanut Line Trailway. Meetup at 1pm ride leaves at 1:30 from The Rock Kitchen and Bar. We’ll be riding roughly 5.5 miles of predominantly graded, grassy trail along the right-of-way of the former Canandaigua-Niagara Falls Railway …

Google Earth Flyover of the Peanut Line

by Dom LicataTrail Advocacy July 14, 2022No Comments

Amherst “Peanut Line” Google Earth Flyover, from the Ellicott Creek Trailway to Transit Road.

The Cutler House

by Dom LicataHistory July 13, 2022No Comments

The Train Gallery at the Buffalo History Museum features an HO Scale model of the Cutler House, a still-standing mid-1800 structure on Campbell Boulevard which served as a post office, store, residence and boarding house for travelers of the New York Central Peanut Line.

The Peanut Line in the Erie County Atlas

by Dom LicataHistory July 13, 2022July 13, 2022No Comments

1880 Erie County Atlas showing Transit Business Directory where the N.Y.C.R.R. “peanut line” crossed from Amherst into Clarence at the Transit Depot. Images provided by David Wolgast The line ran through my GG Grandfather Christian Wehrung’s land at the northeast corner of Sweet Home Road. My Grandmother said that as kids they would walk along …